Other Holiday weekend mass shootings

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At least 17 mass shootings were recorded across the country over the Fourth of July holiday weekend, including a string of deadly incidents that left as many as 18 people dead, data published by the Gun Violence Archive showed.

The shootings were recorded between Friday evening and into the early hours of Wednesday morning, according to the archive, a nonprofit that tracks gun violence in the U.S. and which defines a mass shooting as a single incident in which at least four people, other than the shooter, are shot.

At least 18 people were killed in the string of shootings, with at least 102 others injured, the archive said in a tweet.

At least three people were killed and seven others injured following a shooting just before midnight Tuesday in Shreveport, Louisiana, according to the Gun Violence Archive.

At least nine people, including a child and a teenager, were also injured in a separate shooting in the nation's capital early Wednesday during Fourth of July celebrations, authorities said.

A 9-year-old and a 17-year-old were among those injured in the Washington, D.C., incident, authorities said. All of the victims sustained non-life-threatening injuries.

Mass shootings were also recorded in a number of other states, including Illinois, Indiana, New York, North Carolina, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio and Oklahoma.

The shots were fired from a dark-colored SUV that had been going down Meade Street, Parsons said in a video statement on Twitter.

As it drove through the street, it stopped,” and at least one person from the vehicle “fired shots in the direction of some of our residents that were outside just celebrating the Fourth of July,” Parsons said. “It appears that the shooting was targeted towards those residents and victims that were struck.”